Being new to this technology, I assumed that all lasers, like cnc machines, require g-code to tell the laser where to go, how fast to get there, and how strong to cut. Here is where my in-experience in this field shows. I thank-you in advance and look forward to your replies! I would appreciate your thoughts on this.Īlso, for all of you that may have been down my path, is there any possible solution for using Inkscape that I am not aware of, that will generate accurate G-code suitable for marquetry work?

Currently I am using inkscape with an extension that generates G-code for the laser. If I can get my local makerspace BOD to spring for this software, will it interface pretty easy to my laser. It seems from what I can read here, that Coral Draw is the program of choice. I then found your forum, thank-you for that. There must be a better way to cut parts out on a laser for marquetry. for close to 100 hours now and I finally gave up. I have played around with these images, paths, centerline-trace, etc.

This problem becomes more complex once I tried to do marquetry with several tangent lines such as the petals in a daisy flower. So, depending on which side of the line one deletes, one can get a pretty close inlay image. So I had to 'break apart' these 2 paths and delete one path. One for each side of the original line in my drawing. However, my initial experience with it was that when I create a bitmap, the path for my outline actually had 2 lines. The software that is installed on the computer is Inkscape. I wanted to explore using our Makerspace Laser (A Chinese Turnkey Cheap $300 version) for doing some marquetry.

Cut portion of vector inkscape